Washing machine



May 20, 1930. w, B, STEEN ET AL 1,759,376

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Anorngy Patented May 20, 1939 WILLIAM'B. STEEN AND CECIL WASHING Application filed September The present invention relates to a washing machine, and the operationand advantages thereof will become apparent from the following specification taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings WVherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine, embodying the features, of my invention,

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof,

Fig. 3 is a detail vertical section taken substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 4 is a detail horizontal section taken substantially on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofv the shaft, and f i Fig. 6 is a sectional view through the cup.

Referring to the drawings in detail, it will be seen that a horizontal frame includes longitudinal members 5, connected by cross menu'- bers 6. The frame is supported on legs 7 braced as at 8. Standards 9 and 10 rise from the centers of the frame bars 5. These standards are braced by a'rcuate rods 11, the centers of which are attached to the standards 9 as at 12, and the ends attached in the frame bars 5, as at 14.

A U-shaped bracket includes an elongated bight portion 15 secured vertically on the upper portion of the standard 9 by screw 16 or other suitable fastening elements and relatively short lateral horizontal legs extend from the ends thereof. A U-shaped frame includes an elongated bight portion 18 with legs 19, pivoted to the legs 17 by bolts 20.

Arms 21 are also pivoted to the bolts 20, and secured intermediate their ends to the legs '19 as at 22, and extend beyond the bight 18. A shaft 23 has reduced ends 24 rockable in the extremities of the arms 21. Any suitable wringer structure may be mounted between the standards, the seat boards only being disclosed hereinas at 24.

A lever 25 is pivoted at one end as at 26 to the upper portion of the shaft 23. A lever 27 is pivoted at one end as at 28 to the lower portion of the shaft 23. A rod 29 is pivoted to the lever 25 as at 30 and to the lever 27 as at 31 and extends down below the lever 27 and on its lower end has attached thereto, an inverted cup-shaped element 33. The spring n. SHARP, or STAI-IL, MISSOURI MACHINE 34 is engaged with an intermediate portion of the lever 27 and with an upper portion of the shaft 23.

Tubs T may be mounted on the supporting frame, one to each side of the standards 9 and 10 as is indicated in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2, and the lever 25 may be moved up and down to actuate the inverted cup-shaped elem'ent 33 to agitate the clothing in one of the tubs in the usual well known manner. The particular feature of the structure, resides in the fact that because of the mounting of the shaft 23, in relation to the rockable frame on the bracket 15, this cup-shaped element 33 may be brought into all parts of the tub, and

furthermore, the cup may be swung from one tub over into the other tub.

It is thought that the construction, operation, utility, and advantages of this invention will now be quite apparent to those skilled in this art, without a more detailed description thereof. The present embodiment of the invention has been disclosed in considerable detail, merely for the purposes of exemplifica- 7 tion, since in actual practice it obtains the features of advantages enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention, and the above description.

It will be apparent that changes in the details of construction, and in the combination 1 p and arrangement of parts, may be resorted to without departing from the spirlt or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed, or sacrificing any of its advantages. t

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new 1s A washing machine apparatus of the class 7 erally extending legs, and said frame being substantially U-shaped in formation to infclude a relatively elongated bight and legs pivotally engaged With the first mentioned legs a pair of spaced arms each fixed to a leg of the frame and pivoted With the second legs and extending beyond the second loight,

andsaid shaft being journaledvertically between the extremities of said arms.

In testimony whereof We afiix oursignatures.

WILLIAM B. STEEN. CECIL D. SHARE 

